Seamus Heaney

These magical correspondences often contain a word or phrase that later make their way into art

Remembering Bobby Kennedy on the campaign trail

Jen Herron recalls an experience that goes a long way towards explaining why she both loves and hates writing competitions

It’s no surprise the poet’s work had such a deep and immediate impact on me. I am also the son of farming stock

Curator of the Festival in a Van programme and nine other poets will remember Seamus Heaney, who died on August 30th, 2013, at an event in Co Derry this weekend

Benign but not bland, temperate but not soft, the late poet is irreplaceable as a public figure

A reflective celebration is being held in Bellaghy while booksellers have organised dedicated collections

Original centre was opened by the Nobel Prize-winning poet in 2004

To explore the success of Irish artists without mentioning Haughey is like staging Hamlet without the prince

Benches inscribed with poetry in Wicklow forest first public project by students at TUD’s school of architecture, building and environment

Marilynn Richtarik’s readings of Bernard MacLaverty, Deirdre Madden and David Parks are real highlights

Television: The tone is elevated, as you would expect from a film about bogs from a text by Colm Tóibín, and focusing on Seamus Heaney

Lament for Art O’Leary, which Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill wrote for her murdered husband on May 4th, 1773, is still hugely powerful

At a state dinner between US president Joe Biden and South Korea president Yoon Suk-yeol, guests were treated to a rollercoaster of cultural flattery and some paddywhackery

Marilynn Richtarik explains why, for her new book, she mined literature to chart the shifts in thinking and talking about Northern Ireland that made the Belfast Agreement possible

An Irishman's Diary: Joe Biden gets some brownie points for pronunciation

Reading out loud triggers something very human, very ancient, and very rewarding

Works by Donald Teskey, Norah McGuinness and Mary Swanzy also feature in upcoming Whyte’s auction

This year’s Classics Now festival recognises how the current classical cultural resurgence has been driven by prominent female writers and historians

For Seamus Heaney and Joe Biden, Christianity provides the direction to see beyond a world of suffering

The baby sister has a roundy birthday coming up, not that I can tell you about it

RIA president commends scholarly achievements, international distinction, contributions to Irish society

Commemoration attendees express dismay at scrapping of Dublin Castle event

An Irishman’s Diary

Famous for pens, pencils and stationery, it has been a family business since 1927

An Irishman’s Diary

SDLP leader looks to election season in the North as his party meets up in Bellaghy

The South African soprano talks about the inspiration behind her upcoming NCH performance

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet spoke at the Irish Times Winter Nights Festival

An Irishman’s Diary

Margaret O’Connor and Jess Murphy combine millinery and patisserie in new project

From crochet to baking, writing to bricklaying, we all possess the ability to create

Bialystok Letter: ‘Please don’t think we all enjoy this,’ a young Polish officer says

Veteran journalist on coming to terms with his motor neuron disease diagnosis

Children are still in agony, and forced to display their suffering on the airwaves

World Thrombosis Day: Raising awareness about life-threatening blood clots

De Burca rare book sale includes book with accounts of ‘something like a ship’ in the sky

We Don’t Know Ourselves is the story of Ireland’s growth since the 1950s

Art&Antiques: Sale of Colt at Bonham’s Los Angeles achieved world auction record for firearm

‘We’re remembering everyone equally – their politics, or who killed them, is irrelevant’